“Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out the blueprint for a successful century.” -The New York Times “Alex Steffen explores our planet’s future, telling powerful, inspiring stories about the hard choices facing humanity … and our opportunity to create a much better tomorrow.”-TED.com Alex Steffen is one of the world’s leading voices on sustainability, social...

Click the movie above to watch a test run of the Settlement Simulation, a cellular automata based generative algorithm for distributing dwellings and farms. The Settlement Sim generates neighborhood-scale aggregations of dwellings and the productive surfaces required to feed the them. Shades of green represent production intensity (# of people fed / 100m2, lightest green...